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emvaized
Enable regular panel buttons for text fields
There seems to be a special panel for text fields in the options but why can't we have the regular panel?
Because I can't think of a reason when regular buttons (search, translate etc.) can be really useful for text you've just inputted yourself. These cases seem to be quite rare, and since your hands already on keyboard you could always CTRL+T and quickly search the text you need – and in the meantime additional buttons will overflood the panel, already containing Cut, Copy and Paste buttons.
That's why it was decided to separate textfield panel and regular panel. If you think otherwise, please provide arguments how regular panel buttons could be useful for textfields.
I also vote for this feature. For example, I am living in Denmark (for a few years now) but I don't speak Danish, so when I want to buy something online, I translate the name of the object from my language to Danish and then select the translation to search for it in Google Denmark (to restrict it to Danish online stores only). I recognize that this is a very specific case.
But also at other times there are websites that display text in text fields, either for aesthetics, page design, etc.
@simonbcn Perhaps the Translate button is the only one somewhat justified to be displayed for text fields. However, from your description it should behave differently and replace the selected text with it's translation on click, rather than open Google Translate page.
@emvaized no, you have misunderstood me. I am not talking about the translate button, but the search button. In addition to the above example there are others, for example, I am typing a word in a text field and I want to look it up to be sure it is spelled that way or its meaning.
Maybe in future there will be an option for this – or a full-fledged button editor for both regular and text field tooltips. But for now I have neither time nor inspiration to work on it, as it would require rewriting a lot of things.